Your bracket is busted. My bracket is busted. Two ways to start over in the Sweet 16.@JohnCanzanoBFT

Your bracket is busted. My bracket is busted. I'm not a big fan of the mulligan, but with Florida Gulf Coast (?!?!) and the Sweet 16 looking not so sweet with all that red on the bracket... I think an opportunity to get a fresh start sounds about right.

I'm in both brackets, and would love to see you in both places. Prizes to the top three finishers in the Bald Faced Truth pool. Credit to the smart people at Yahoo! for getting in front of what is a national state of emergency and creating a Sweet 16 event. The biggest Gonzaga fan I know took today off from work. I could have told him it would be a bad one. Right?

Meanwhile, a Pac-12 source tells me that the firing of Ben Howland at UCLA was cast in stone in the final couple of weeks of the regular season. Howland knew it. Bruins athletic director Dan Guerrero knew it.

Source tells me that when Howland clinched the regular-season conference championship with a win over Washington he did NOT receive the customary congratulatory call from his AD. Didn't even get a text. Didn't get a handshake.

Howland, three Final Fours or not, knew he was toast right there, and there was some speculation that he'd beat Guerrero to the punch, resign and take the Pitt job back (if Jamie Dixon hadn't signed that extension). I'm wondering if Dixon was watching what happened with Howland, incidentally.